I like the way this is going, but right now it's way too spread out. It needs a cookbook or something. Like the XML modules, this one seems to require reading 10,000 pods to try to find everything you need.

While some things seem to fit together well, others don't. The ::Format tree seems to be somewhat random in invocation and I find I need 5 if blocks and 3 eval {} sections to do what some of the more venerable date and time modules can do in one line.

This was one of my favorite modules, but the 6.x release is a huge step backwards. I'm going to have to use 5.54 forever I guess. Requiring 5.10 is going to lock quite a few people out, especially in large enterprise environments where it's already difficult to deploy CPAN stuff. It's sad really... but I still see a lot of perl5.6 out there.